Clay sculpture of a used polystyrene cup

Clay Cup

Clay

Cups

Sculpture

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down.  Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture.  A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

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5 Fired clay items on linen-covered plinth (previously in a steel reading case - see installation pictures).

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

Waste

Food

Packaging

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation. A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

The Swimmer

Fired earthenware

Ariadne

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

Rough Sleeper

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

Reclining figure

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

A lumped clay form with two thumb shaped holes, displayed on a plinth. This lumpen, baked clay figure was made after the artist visited the Picasso Museum, Paris in 1994. He identified a chronological moment when Picasso had recognized his own value as an artist and begun to produce a prolific amount of artworks that had a shorthand mark of the artist about them. The mark or the process as a signature. This is the confidence of an artist who is no longer struggling to communicate but is talking fluently in Picasso-ese. The rest of the world looks on and marvels uncomprehendingly. Knowing that he is in full flow and recognizing his star quality but the dialogue is no longer with an audience. The artist made this artwork as an experiment with this theory: could he make a piece of work that had the confidence of Picasso, the increasingly acknowledged master of twentieth-century art? With two fat thumb indentations could he express something profound? The working title &lsquo;After Picasso&rsquo; was renamed &lsquo;Formally Known As&hellip;&rsquo; to give some distance to the idea &ndash; not a homage but a study, a play on the word &lsquo;formal&rsquo;.

Formerly Known as After Picasso

Painted clay 

Signatures

A lumped clay form with two thumb shaped holes, displayed on a plinth.

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Painting

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Silkscreen

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Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

Gavin Turk

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